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After campaigning in New Hampshire over the weekend, Mitt Romney will make a play for Iowa and its critical conservative base.

Can Mitt Romney win Iowa?

Posted on November 21, 2011, at 10:22 AM

After playing hard-to-get with Iowa for most of the campaign, Romney is turning his attention to the Hawkeye State this week. Will Iowa return the love?

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Mitt Romney often touts his business experience as proof he could cure America's sick economy, but his record as a ruthless corporate raider may turn off out-of-work Americans at the ballot box.

Is Mitt Romney's business experience really a plus?

Posted on November 14, 2011, at 10:16 AM

The former Bain Capital exec's corporate record has been a big selling point on the campaign trail — but, in the Occupy era, it might hurt him

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Robert Shrum: Mitt Romney is the only adult in the room

Posted on November 10, 2011, at 8:39 PM

After Rick Perry's abysmal debate and Herman Cain's transparently false sexual harassment defense, it's more clear than ever that Romney's the one

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Mitt Romney wants to offer seniors the option of using government vouchers to pay for private health care, or sticking with Medicare, but footing part of the bill themselves if private care is cheaper.

Mitt Romney's Medicare plan: Resurrecting the public option?

Posted on November 8, 2011, at 10:54 AM

Romney wants the elderly to choose between subsidized private insurance and a federal system. Isn't that what liberals wanted for all Americans?

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GOP presidential frontrunner Mitt Romney's climate change beliefs have been called into question after he told a Republican audience that "we don't know" what's causing our planet to heat up.

Has Mitt Romney become a climate-change skeptic?

Posted on October 31, 2011, at 12:24 PM

The GOP presidential frontrunner always said that man-made pollution played a role in global warming. Has he suddenly changed his mind?

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Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney might be tempted to woo conservatives with a flat-tax proposal, as some of his rivals have. But don't hold your breath, says Jonathan Chait, because it's never going to happen.

Why Mitt Romney won't embrace a flat tax

Posted on October 27, 2011, at 10:07 AM

The Right cheers Rick Perry and Herman Cain for jumping on the flat-tax train, says Jonathan Chait in New York. Too bad for Romney he can't join them

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GOP presidential contender Mitt Romney raised a red flag for conservative Republicans Tuesday when he didn't explicitly support Ohio Gov. John Kasich's anti-union measure.

Mitt Romney's 'incredible' waffling on Ohio's union fight

Posted on October 26, 2011, at 9:27 AM

The slow-and-steady GOP frontrunner makes an unforced error by punting on Ohio Gov. John Kasich's anti-union crackdown. Just how bad is this?

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Mitt Romney's Massachusetts health care reforms are once again putting the GOP presidential hopeful in a tight spot, this time because the law gives health care to illegal immigrants.

Will Romney regret giving health care to illegal immigrants?

Posted on October 25, 2011, at 10:52 AM

The GOP frontrunner criticizes Rick Perry for offering tuition help to illegal immigrants in Texas — even though Romney provided them with health benefits in Massachusetts

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Mitt Romney and Gov. Rick Perry both edited footage from Tuesday's contentious debate into online attack ads, but Romney soon yanked his off the web.

Will Mitt Romney's 'brutal' 'Rick Perry's a moron' ad backfire?

Posted on October 21, 2011, at 10:46 AM

Romney released a web ad painting Perry as an inarticulate buffoon who's unable to debate — or lead the U.S. Then he pulled the ad

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New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie threw his support behind Mitt Romney Tuesday.

Chris Christie's endorsement of Mitt Romney: Will it help?

Posted on October 12, 2011, at 10:25 AM

The New Jersey governor backs a fellow moderate. Will that make any difference to the GOP's conservative base?

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Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney's religion took center stage at the weekend's Values Voters Summit, thanks to a Rick Perry supporter who called Mormonism a cult.

The Mormonism-is-a-'cult' attack: Will it hurt Mitt Romney?

Posted on October 10, 2011, at 9:41 AM

A Dallas Baptist pastor who backs Rick Perry for president ignites a big fight by suggesting that Romney isn't a real Christian

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Daniel Larison: Mitt Romney's alarmist foreign policy: Bush redux?

Posted on October 7, 2011, at 4:12 PM

The GOP presidential frontrunner offers a major policy address full of straw men, rhetorical relics, and shameless dishonesty

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Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney pushed the Nevada GOP to push the Silver State caucuses well into January to help give his campaign a boost, according to one former Nevada governor.

Did Mitt Romney 'bully states' to rig the primary calendar?

Posted on October 7, 2011, at 3:42 PM

Chaos breaks out as Republicans move primaries earlier in state after state — and the presidential frontrunner's rivals cry foul

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GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney might benefit from Florida's push to move its primary up to January 31, as a compressed early calendar might give way to a long, expensive slog through the spring.

Will Florida's primary shuffle help Mitt Romney?

Posted on September 30, 2011, at 10:02 AM

The Sunshine State is poised to scramble the 2012 GOP race by leapfrogging other early voting states — throwing the primary calendar into disarray

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Robert Shrum: Mitt Romney is the Richard Nixon of 2012

Posted on September 29, 2011, at 4:00 PM

Just like our 37th president, the once and future GOP frontrunner will secure his party's nomination because the GOP has no other choice

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David Frum: Why the GOP should embrace Mitt Romney

Posted on September 28, 2011, at 4:28 PM

Rick Perry isn't up to the job. Chris Christie isn't coming to the rescue. Republicans must accept that the candidate they want is right in front of them

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